A Dozen Ways To Divide The United Kingdom [1600x2600]

I'm a shirt wearing, Gregs eating, Ale drinking, Rugby league playing man who can't afford a horse, is surrounded by brass bands playing on a postindustrial landscape, which in turn is surrounded by inbred chavs and because of this I have a potentially imminent violent accent and just generally hate everyone. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Holy shit. Someone mentioned Peterborough on Reddit! That dispels the feeling that my city is an illusion. Though I am bewildered that the map considers it to be an enlightened paragon of civilisation.

St Andrews is tiny and you've got the rest of Fife in that pretty large circle. Which is pretty much the opposite of st Andrews. If you want posh Scottish accents you'd be better going for Inverness than st Andrews

St Andrews is where the posh English and Yanks send their kids to protect them from interaction with the poors. The rest of the Fife coast is where they have their holiday homes. It's only really Leven and landwards that's properly Fife.

I lived in the UK for a couple of years, not far from Glastonbury. I get everything about these, except I have no idea wtf 'scrumpy and western' is. I only know scrumpy as a word for strong cider. Enlighten me.

Scrumpy and Western refers humorously to music from England's West Country that fuses comical folk-style songs, often full of double entendre, with affectionate parodies of more mainstream musical genres, all delivered in the local accent/dialect. The name, taken from the title of the 1967 Scrumpy & Western EP by Adge Cutler and the Wurzels, refers to scrumpy, strongly alcoholic cider produced in the West Country.

Exact styles vary by band or musician, and very few are known outside their native county. The main exceptions to this are the Wurzels (originally "Adge Cutler and the Wurzels"), a Somerset group who had a number one hit in the UK with The Combine Harvester in 1976.

Fun story, I also hang out on a Sunderland fan forum called the SMB, and after this incident, we contacted the local mounted police division to ask after the horse. His name is Buddy and he likes sugar cubes, so we all chipped in on a crowdfund and bought him a lifetimes supply lol

I laughed at all of these, but "stuck up and pretentious accent" In the east of Scotland, while correctly encompassing St Andrews and Embra, also covers the rest of Fife, and Dundee, fer feck's sake. The worst accent in the whole of Scotland.

Think how meta it is though, being from outside of the UK looking in-- the Brits are talking about all these nuanced differences and stereotypes that they can easily distinguish while the rest of us are just going "Soooo, that blue is different than that blue, and they're different than that bluish purple?"

Damn I love Limmy. Limmys Show is genuinely one of the best British comedy shows in the last decade. Took an episode or two to understand what he was saying. Having subtitles on Netflix too was helpful. But you get used to it.

He has a YouTube channel now where he live streams himself playing overwatch

Northumberland should definitely have been ‘both of the above for the landscapes map. We have some of the most beautiful landscapes here. Tiny population with a huge county = lots of untouched nature. Plus castles. We have the most castles in any county in Europe apparently.